Story of the Samuel Adams, as a part of the world history series on the founding fathers of America. Presented by the Academic Block.
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Samuel Adams was born on 27th September 1722 in Boston Massachusetts. Mr. Deacon Adams, the father of John Adams was a brewer in Boston. Soon in 1730, Mr. Deacon Adams had to mortgage his entire property due to the financial crisis, whole of Boston was suffering from. When Deacon died, the whole family went into bankruptcy. Samuel Adams struggled hard against this and eventually started to hate the draconian government and its policies.
In 1740, Adams graduated from Harvard College. He was studying law back then. But he decided to open a business venture. As Adams had no experience in the business sector, he failed miserably. Not once, but quite many times. Finally he learned that he was really good at something else.
He raised his dissent and gathered a group of people to fight against the British Empire when they passed the Sugar Act. Later, he did the same, when the British parliament passed the Stamp Act. Samuel Adams always stood whenever the English Parliament tried to impose a new tax or anything which was not in favor of the public.
By 1764 Samuel Adams was now as influential and powerful as James Otis. Otis was a lawyer and politician who gained prominence by his resistance to the revenue acts. Not just this, Samuel Adams was also a Second Cousin of John Adams who later became the Second President of America.
It was 1767 and Cabinet Minister Charles Townshend imposed takes on earlier duty-free products like lead, glass, paper, paint, tea, etc. Samuel Adams made it his personal mission to undermine this. When there were shootings in the protests against it, he made sure to deface the troops in Boston as they fired and got 5 Americans killed. He published against them in colonial newspapers and showed how cruel and sadist the troops were.
The British Parliament then imposed the Tea Act in 1773 which allowed East India Trading Company to become a Monopoly as they were the only sellers of tea. Yet another act that was not in favor of Americans.
On 16th December 1773, 60 men gathered together and took a drastic stand against it. At night, they invaded the British Ships at Boston Harbor and destroyed all the tea they could find. They dumped about 342 chests of tea into the sea. The total worth of tea dumped in the sea back then was about 18000 pounds. This act of rebellion ignited a fire in the hearts of many other Americans and they too now started to rise against the British. One of those American was young Alexander Hamilton who was just in college back then.
Samuel Adams also served in the Continental Congress till 1781. Although he was not as active in the Continental Congress as he was in the Massachusetts Legislature and town meetings. He and his cousin John Adams were the first to come up with the idea to free themselves from the reign of British Empire once and for all. Samuel Adams also signed the Declaration of Independence with his cousin and others.
He was also an Anti-Federalist who believed that the new constitution would give a lot of unchecked power to the federalist government but later he changed his views and became a federalist when they promised to support a number of future amendments including The Bill of Rights.
At the point when public gatherings were created, he partnered himself with the Vote-based conservatives, the devotees of Thomas Jefferson who later became 3rd President of the United States. In the wake of being crushed by official voters leaning toward Jefferson in 1796, he resigned to private life.
A few years after Samuel Adams left his political career, on 2nd October 1803, Samuel Adams bid farewell to the world. He died at the age of 81 but he spend most of his years revolting against injustice and trying to free America from the clutches of the British Empire. What America is today, is because of the fire he ignited in the hearts of American men who fought beside him in order to free the nation from foreign reign.
The death of such a great orator left the whole nation speechless. Let us not forget the man who stood tall against the British when America needed a hero the most, the source of inspiration and rebellion which led America to its freedom. God bless Samuel Adams and God bless America.
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